San Francisco-based designer Katerina Kopytina introduces the Gentle Bean, the debut product from her studio – a pendant that celebrates restraint, materials honesty, and quiet attraction. Every bit is hand made from American oak, permitting the wooden’s pure grain to shine via, and paired with its giant sculptural globe. The primary version bears a maker’s mark: individually numbered and restricted to simply 100 (you’ll be able to even choose which quantity you need!). Its kind is intentionally easy – understated in a manner that’s more durable to execute than it seems to be. A playful distinction comes through the wire, out there in fastidiously chosen Northern California-inspired colours. The choices aren’t countless, and that’s by design – providing solely the most effective so you’ll be able to simply and successfully select what’s best for you.
Investing in native sourcing and manufacturing strategies is integral to Kopytina’s work, the Gentle Bean launching a brand new wave of techniques design with sustainability on the heart. Made in small batches, with considerate manufacturing strategies, these lights uplift these devoted to handicraft, a follow shortly discarded if the underside line is the one precedence. The wire choices pop in seven colours, together with Smooth Linen, Black Obsidian, Yellow Superbloom, Pine Forest, Coral Bay, and Golden Gate Pink. Three bulb choices open up a brand new variant of favor – Cloud, Bubble, and Nightfall, every aptly named for his or her respective frosted, clear, and smoky qualities. With plug-in, ceiling mount, and wall-mounted variations of the Gentle Bean, the sky is the restrict for hanging choices and coloration mixtures.
Kopytina additionally dropped an extra-local and native to Northern California Claro Walnut model of Gentle Bean. Dubbed “the king of walnuts,” the deep wooden tone shows grain patterns in hues of smoky purples and golds.
Katerina Kopytina is a San Francisco-based designer that helps manufacturers flip concepts into actual, tangible merchandise, ones that lead us towards a extra considerate and sustainable future. Raised in Moscow, she moved to Milan to discover the distinctive design tradition of Italy. Her time there drove her to launch her personal design consultancy with shoppers together with Cartier, Mastercard, and Swarovski. With over 15 years within the trade, together with 10 at Yves Béhar’s fuseproject, she has helped numerous groups create merchandise that take into account a holistic method to round design, life cycle improvements on the forefront of her course of.
Katerina Kopytina Picture: Quentin de Coster.
To be taught extra in regards to the Gentle Bean by Katerina Kopytina, please go to light-bean.com.
Pictures by Quentin de Coster.
